ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 133, 5 June 1907, Page 6

ILLUSTRATED MISCELLANY

OPEN-AIR TREATMENT AT HOME. In the treatment of consumption, it is now a common-place to say that fresh air is most essential. In order to obtain plenty of fresh air at night, it is customary in many to make the patient sleep with his head within a- cabinet which communicates with an open window.

FRESH AIR WINDOW CABESTET.

A cabinet of tkis general clas3, but I possessing many valuable improvements, we here illustrate. Primarily, this cabinet is collapsible, and when not in use may be folded into a small compass. In addition to this the device provides a curtain at the outer or window end ,

A MODERN GOLIATH.

A Berlin performer, who is billed as "The Modern Goliath," has been astonisffing audiences at a theatre of varieties there by such feats as the one shown in the accompanying picture. The two cyclists are circling around Goliafch at terrific speed, without, however, touchin" the gTound. c j A slight knowledge of centrifugal force ' and a dose study of the picture itself will show how the feat ie performed. The ; bicycle riders, with their wheels har- ' nessed to the two ends of the long pole balanced across Goliath's shoulders, begin to ride round and round him in a circle,

of the cabinet; this may be raised or lowered to regulate the amount of air admitted, while the opposite end of the cabinet is equipped with a curtain arranged to fit snugly round the throat of the patient, so as to protect the body from draughts and exposure.

BURGLAR'S CUIRASS.

At Blackburn recently two London tailors, Eli Lemon and Davis BerHl, were each sentenced to six years' penal servitude for shopbreaking. The two men are regarded by Scotland Yard as the heads of a dangerous gang of cracksmen operating in various parts oi the United Kingdom and in Germany. Berill, who is 72 years of age, is the actual ringleader, and is believed, said Superintendent Dobson, to be a toolmaker to the housebreaking fraternity. Upwards of SO finely-finished tools (from socket jemmies and movable wrenches to electric flash lamps), such as were used by a professional safebreaker, were found secreted around his body in the shape of a cuirass. Six years ago. when BeriU was arrested with others in Dublin, an exactly similar armoury of weapons was captured, and the old man had been identified by the Dover police as one concerned in a great jewel robbery in that town three or four Tears ago.

the diameter of which equals the length of the pole. Of course, Goliath turns with them. The cyclists ride faster and faster, until they and their wheels are swung compleiely off the ground and whirled around at great speed with Goliath spinning like a top in the centre. The strain on the arms, legs, and shoulders of the human pivot is said to be tremendous. As Goliath slackens speed the whirling cyclists touch ground again, and ride round more and more slowly until they have regained an upright position, when it is safe to jump off, and the performance is over. As can well .be imagined, this astonishing feat created a sensation.